Legal to Numb Your Hands?

[TheEvilSaint]

i know ali did this before every fight: he would go to a bathroom stall with ferdie pacheco (his ring doc) and pacheco would shoot up his hands with novacain so ali wouldnt feel any pain from the punches he threw.

is this still legal today? or was it always illegal and ali was just never caught?

[magus1234]

Mayweather admitted to it recently, with his Chronic hand issues

[leff]

as far as im concerned its on the drug list, but hey the druglist may be different in the us

[SilentButViolent]

Heard in some states it is, others it isn't

[j]

i don't think it should be allowed. if your hands are that weak, you're not training right.

for the best method against gaurding your hands from injury, look up what kostya tszyu does, if you can find it that is. he keeps it a bit of a secret, as he only has hinted to it before, but if you know it, you will be able to hit a lot harder and never have to worry about your hands.

[magus1234]

Tony Atlas made a comment about this and how he has been trying to make the amount of rappings for a fighters hand be bigger, it makes sense if you think about it.Breaking your hands in boxing is like loosing your voice for singers, there should be more purcausions for it

[American_Ninja]

i know ali did this before every fight: he would go to a bathroom stall with ferdie pacheco (his ring doc) and pacheco would shoot up his hands with novacain so ali wouldnt feel any pain from the punches he threw.

is this still legal today? or was it always illegal and ali was just never caught?

I dont think it was novacain, it was Cortazone...spell check.
Thats what I remember reading about it.

[TheEvilSaint]

I dont think it was novacain, it was Cortazone...spell check.
Thats what I remember reading about it.

i have ferdie's book (unfortunatly) and he said it was novacaine.

[borikua]

hmmm interesting...

[opethdrums]

good idea but wouldn't this **** your hands up even more in the long run?

tell us what kostya tszyu does! why did you bring it up if you arent gonna tell us